From: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
To: "Lee Chee Yang" <chee.yang.lee@intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [patch][master][langdale] libgit2: upgrade to 1.5.1
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 22:32:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230209223211.2ecf3ab6@booty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230209130229.3224043-1-chee.yang.lee@intel.com>
Hello Lee Chee,
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 21:02:29 +0800
"Lee Chee Yang" <chee.yang.lee@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Chee Yang Lee <chee.yang.lee@intel.com>
>
> This is a security release to address CVE-2023-22742: when compiled
> using the optional, included libssh2 backend, libgit2 fails to verify
> SSH keys by default.
>
> When using an SSH remote with the optional, included libssh2 backend,
> libgit2 does not perform certificate checking by default. Prior versions
> of libgit2 require the caller to set the `certificate_check` field of
> libgit2's `git_remote_callbacks` structure - if a certificate check
> callback is not set, libgit2 does not perform any certificate checking.
> This means that by default - without configuring a certificate check
> callback, clients will not perform validation on the server SSH keys and
> may be subject to a man-in-the-middle attack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chee Yang Lee <chee.yang.lee@intel.com>
A patch doing this same upgrade has been sent yesterday by Alex Kanavin
and is already in master.
--
Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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2023-02-09 13:02 [patch][master][langdale] libgit2: upgrade to 1.5.1 chee.yang.lee
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